Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The protection of these relationships to land and kin are evident in the ways that Wabanaki…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"1800Maine Historical Society Initially, however, the primary legacy of these efforts prior to the US-Canada northeast border commissions of the late…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"1840Maine Historical Society Unsurprisingly, jurisdictional questions continued to plague would-be land speculators and even governmental officials…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"1920Swan's Island Historical Society Despite the statewide trend, the decades following the American Civil War continued to be a period of growth on…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"Original Log CabinNew Sweden Historical Society Gable-L FarmhouseNylander Museum Folk VictorianNylander Museum Craftsman…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"1890Mount Desert Island Historical Society Text by Samuel Savage McGee and Betsy Hewlett Families on Mount Desert Island form the connecting web…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"1960Mount Desert Island Historical Society Thuya Garden Entry Gate, ca 2012 The hand carved wood entry gates to Thuya Garden were designed by…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"… 2010 With images from The Farmington Historical Society and The Farmington Public Library Jacob Abbott played a major role in the development of…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… from the collections of the Maine Historical Society, Lubec Historical Society, Lubec Landmarks and private individuals."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… Trail by Ronald Pesha, Lubec Historical Society Who was Myron Haliburton Avery? The first 2000-miler of the Appalachian Trail."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… District of Maine map, 1795Maine Historical Society Local settlers cultivated potatoes and vegetable gardens, hunted game in nearby woods and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"1865Thomaston Historical Society The Thomaston Bank was established in 1825 at the Lower Corner on the site of the current business block on the…"

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… Block Warden ArmbandBangor Historical Society After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Block Wardens were assigned to help carry out the tasks…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866

"… balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum In the book he labeled "Scrap & Sketch Book," John Martin veered…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"Maine Historical Society The War of 1812 proved a trying time for the separation movement in Maine."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… which it was eventually achieved.Maine Historical Society In October, 247 delegates representing all 236 incorporated towns in the state travelled…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society For their part, as White New Englanders invested in and settled in early Maine, they…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"1890New Sweden Historical Society My great grandmother Annie came from Sweden when she was six in 1895. She was born in 1889."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"… the collections of Mount Desert Island Historical Society & Northeast Harbor Library Members of the Savage family have lived in and around the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… Desert Island.Mount Desert Island Historical Society It was the arrival of these rusticators, as they called themselves, that would bring the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"… to the body."Mount Desert Island Historical Society The island's growing popularity raised concern, mainly among summer people, about…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"… the Atlantic Coast.Mount Desert Island Historical Society Eventually things improved -- aided by such things as the development of the granite…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"… which was published by the Maine Genealogical Society beginning in 1988. Besides building their homes, these families farmed, fished, dug clams…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… Harbor, as it appeared in 1930.Maine Historical Society Islanders still fished, but instead of sailing to Labrador, they stayed more local."